Business Schools and Their Critics

Leonard George , “The Great School Reform Hoax,” Esquire (April 1984), pp. 47–56.

Peters Thomas J. Waterman Robert H. Jr. , In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1982), p. 35.

McCormick John O. , “Higher Education as Lower Education,” The New York Times, November 25, 1984, p. 16E.

Veblen Thorstein , The Higher Learning in America (New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1968), p. 154.

Kirkland Edward Chase , Dream and Thought in the Business Community 1860–1900 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1956), p. 98.

Sedlack Michael W. Williamson Harold F. , The Evolution of Management Education (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983), p. 3–4.

Cheit Earl F. , The Useful Arts and the Liberal Tradition (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975), p. 91.

Whyte William H. Jr. , The Organization Man (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday Anchor edition, 1957), p. 93.

Pieron Frank C. , The Education of American Businessmen (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959). Gordon Robert Aaron Howell James Edwin , Higher Education for Business (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1959).

Educating Tomorrow's Managers, (New York, NY: Committee for Economic Development, 1964). For a fuller treatment of the major recommendations and the responses of business schools, see Cheit , op. cit, pp. 96–107.

“My Son, The MBA,” Forbes, March 1, 1977, pp. 41–42.

Servan-Schreiber Jean-Jacques , The American Challenge, 1st English edition, trans. Steel Ronald , (New York, NY: Atheneum, 1968).

The Economist, December 22, 1984, pp. 92 and 95.

Hayes Robert H. Abernathy William J. , “Managing Our Way to Economic Decline,” Harvard Business Review (July/August 1980), pp. 66–77.

Hayes Robert H. Abernathy William , “Management Minus Invention,” The New York Times, August 20, 1980, p. D2.

Ashen Melvin , “The Management of Ideas,” Harvard Business Review (July/August 1969), pp. 99–107.

Livingston J. Sterling , “Myth of the Well-educated Manager,” Harvard Business Review (January/February 1971), pp. 79–89.

Mintzberg Henry , “The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact,” Harvard Business Review (July/August 1975), pp. 49–61.

Levitt Theodore , “A Heretical View of Management Science,” Fortune, December 18, 1978, pp. 50–52.

Wayne Leslie , “Management Gospel Gone Wrong,” The New York Times, May 30, 1982, pp. F1, 21.

Behrman Jack N. Levin Richard I. , “Are Business Schools Doing Their Job?” Harvard Business Review (January/February 1984), pp. 140–147.

“The Future of Management Education and Development,” an AACSB Project headed by McKibbin Lawrence E. Porter Lyman W.

Byrne John A. , “The M.B.A. Mills,” Forbes, November 19, 1984, pp. 316–326.

Thurow Lester C. , Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics (New York, NY: Random House, 1983).

Grayson Lawrence P. , “Japan's Intellectual Challenge: The Strategy,” Engineering Education (December 1983), pp. 138–146. Also, Ijira Yuji Itami Hiroyuki , “How Business Education Works in Japan,” Touche Ross Report on Business Education (1983), pp. 9–10.

Logue Dennis E. , “Bad Managers Aren't the B-School's Fault,” The New York Times, May 24, 1981, Sec. 3, p. 2.

Rosett Richard N. , “Finding Experts and Leaders: A Defense of the MBA,” The Wall Street Journal, December 19, 1983, p. 18.

Harris Robert G. , “The Values of Economic Theory in Management Education,” American Economic Review (May 1984), pp. 122–126.

Teece David Winter Sidney , “Economic Theory and Management Education,” American Economic Review, Vol. 74:2 (May 1984), pp. 116–121.

Leavitt Harold , “Management and Management Education in the West: What's Right and What's Wrong?” the Stockton Lecture, London Business School, March 16, 1983.

Aliber Robert Z. , The International Money Game (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1983), pp. 276–283.

Sease Douglas R. , “Schools Again Offer Courses on Production,” The Wall Street Journal, January 26, 1981, p. 23; Fowler Elizabeth M. , “M.B.A.'s vs. World of Action,” New York Times, April 22, 1981, sec. D, p. 21.

“B-Schools Try to Churn Out Entrepreneurs,” Business Week, March 5, 1984, p. 201.

Elizabeth Brooks, “International Business Education in Bay Area Universities: Meeting the Challenge of Global Competition,” C. 1983: Bay Area and the World Project.

“Business and Universities: A New Partnership,” Business Week, December 20, 1982, pp. 58–61; Fowler Elizabeth M. , “Executive Perspective in Schools,” New York Times, February 10, 1982, p. D21; Wendel William H. , “Desirable Job Title: Executive in Residence,” Harvard Business Review (November/December 1981), pp. 30–34.

La Force J. Clayburn , Management (Summer 1984), D. 3.

Kerr Clark , “The Schools of Business Administration,” Proceedings of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, 1957.

Crittenden Ann , “The Age of ‘Me-First’ Management,” The New York Times, August 19, 1984, pp. Fl, 12–13.

Whitehead Alfred North , The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1929), Chapter VII.